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2. www.wired.com › story › mastermind-excerptPaul Le Roux, the Coder Who Became a Criminal Mastermind - WIRED

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   Jan 29, 2019 · Earlier he described an employee who stole $5 million from him, then began driving a Lamborghini around Manila, buying his girlfriends designer handbags and diamond necklaces. The employee was no...

3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Paul_Le_RouxPaul Le Roux - Wikipedia

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   Paul Calder Le Roux (born 24 December 1972) is a former programmer, former criminal cartel boss, and informant to the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).

4. www.smithsonianmag.com › history › computerThe Computer Programmer Who Ran a Global Drug Trafficking ...

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   Jan 29, 2019 · The incredible true story of the decade-long quest to bring down Paul Le Roux—the creator of a frighteningly powerful Internet-enabled cartel who merged the ruthlessness of a drug lord with...

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5. www.grunge.com › 485336Where Is Convicted Drug Smuggler Paul Le Roux Today?

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   Aug 11, 2021 · Le Roux obtained his security force through a company called Echelon Associates, which hired former military personnel to scout and safeguard smuggling routes and to threaten and kill those who crossed Le Roux (via The New York Times).

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6. www.vice.com › en › articleA Drug Kingpin Ran His Empire from a Laptop, Then ... - VICE

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   Jan 23, 2019 · Before he was an informant implicating former American soldiers in mercenary-style slayings on behalf of a global drug and gun empire he controlled, Paul Le Roux was a guy with a computer.

7. www.dw.com › en › from-programmer-to-gangster-bossThe unbelievable story of Paul le Roux – DW – 07/06/2020

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   Jul 6, 2020 · A hotel room in Monrovia, Liberia, in September 2012: Paul le Roux, a brilliant programmer from southern Africa with a passion for criminal business, meets a man named Pepe — the boss of a...

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   Who is Paul Le Roux?

   • Wittingly or not, they all found themselves caught in the web of computer programmer Paul Le Roux. In the 1990s, the Zimbabwe-born South African created a free, open-source encryption software that was later used to write better-known and more successful programs.

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   What did Le Roux do?

   • Le Roux would recruit local pharmacies and local doctors in the United States and patch them into this brilliant network that he had built, so that orders would come through online spamming and search results.

   The Computer Programmer Who Ran a Global Drug Trafficking Empire

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   Why did Le Roux change his tune?

   • In what would be his final hours of freedom, Le Roux was lured to the city to meet with a purported member of a Columbian drug cartel to discuss selling him cocaine and methamphetamines. After initially resisting arrest, Le Roux quickly changed his tune as he was taken aboard a flight to the United States.

   Where Is Convicted Drug Smuggler Paul Le Roux Today?

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   What happened to Paul Le Roux?

   • Crystal meth, weapons smuggling, contract killings, an attempted coup — for Paul le Roux, no crime went too far. A New York court has now sentenced the gangster boss from Zimbabwe to 25 years in prison.

   The unbelievable story of Paul le Roux – DW – 07/06/2020

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   How did Le Roux become a global cartel?

   • Le Roux later metastasized his operation into a true, global cartel. He started dealing in arms. He started dealing in hard drugs like cocaine and methamphetamine, and moving them all around the world, in yachts, by planes, with drones. He set up a militia in Somalia. He was buying gold all over Africa. He was laundering money in Hong Kong.

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   When was Le Roux born?

   • Le Roux was born on 24 December 1972, at Lady Rodwell Maternity Home in Bulawayo, in what was then the unrecognised self-declared republic of Rhodesia (which was internationally recognised as a British colony) (present-day Zimbabwe), and given up for adoption.

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9. www.latimes.com › books › la-ca-jc-evan-ratliffMeet Paul Le Roux, the cyber criminal exposed in new books by ...

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   Feb 15, 2019 · Le Roux’s “throw money or people at the wall and see what sticks” strategy suggests a warped, demented venture capitalist.